Like many companies, staff leave or change jobs, and someone else takes over. The Isle of Wight Tourist Board had existing labelling equipment and needed to replenish the label stocks but the staff member who looked after it had left. When use is low, often the question is where to get them?
The island tourist board found us online and contacted us needing labels for their label gun. We were quickly able to identify the make and model, and as Positive ID manufacture labels for almost all of the labelling guns used in the UK were able to supply the correct labels for the gun.
More added benefits were that PID were able to manufacture a bespoke printed label to the customer’s specification turning the customers order around in just 10 days.
Commenting on the sale, Managing Director John Mayers said:
We have many customers who order infrequently and we are always happy to help them. If we cannot identify the label gun type, it is often possible to supply the customer with a brand new label gun at a discount to keep them up and running.
For more information on label guns, call us on 01332 8644895
AMC Removals used small labels on sheets and would identify all items being moved from one destination to storage by numbering everything. But they had to write them out by hand! I.e. 1.2.3. etc. a long and labour intensive process with the added difficulty of hand writing legibililty and problems of duplication and human error.
These devices automatically number labels as they are dispensed. To use one, you simply pull the handle and the label gun prints a number on the label and using the action to move the number counter on one step per label. These sequential labelling guns will mark all the way to 9999 without ever duplicating a number.
So a simple low cost solution with no risk of duplication and clear legible print every time, all done in no time at all!
To find out if Positive ID can help you in any way, call us on 01332 864895
Case Study: The Marriot Hotel Grosvenor House London.
The Stores manager at this famous hotel had a problem with rotation of foodstuffs in their stores and chill rooms. Without careful management of stocks, it is easy for perishable food to be lost, eating into profits and consistency – an unacceptable situation for a hotel of this prestige..
Having searched for labelling suppliers; Positive ID stood out from the crowd as we were able to propose a solution rather than just selling a labeller; that being pre-printed colour coded freezer labels.
Salesman Colin Wilkie commented:
By supplying high visibility fluorescent labels in various colours, with a freezer safe adhesive to ensure easy and speedy recognition, the staff were able to label food quickly and accurately and with confidence.
The solution is an extension of a commonly known foodsafe labelling but with the addition of a coded label gun to allow for batch, date and time information to be printed on the label.
Managing Director John Mayers commented on the sale:
This is typical for Positive ID – we take great care in helping our customers resolve operating problems reliably and effectively. We are not here just to make a sale – we are here to apply our knowledge and experience to our customer’s problems and provide the best solutions we can for them
To find out how Positive ID can help you, call us on 01332 864895
Local tyre distributor needed help with a sticky problem!
Positive ID Labelling were approached by a local tyre distributor who were having problems with their tyre labels staying on during transit.
Our first port of call was to our paper supplier Smith and McLaurin who are always willing to solve our customer problems. Mike Galvin quickly came up with the solution using a semi gloss paper-foil laminate construction, laminated with a high tack, permanent hot melt adhesive to a glassine liner.
Commenting on the solution:
This has very good adhesion properties from –20 to 50 degrees Celsius. The high tack rubber-resin hot melt adhesive is designed to give high tack and adhesion to both polar and non polar substrates.
Needless to say the customer was very pleased with the outcome, as the number of tyres returned to base was reduced by 95%. Joey Ascott (Managing Director), visited the our newly built premises to thank us in person.
Working with Positive ID always ends in great results and this is another great example. We have saved a small fortune in returns and reduced administration problems as a result.
To find out more about our labelling solutions, call us on 01332 864895
Thermochromatic ink provides the ideal solution to a heat sensitive problem.
Positive ID were approached recently by a major laboratory operator; they were seeking a solution to meet an important process within the lab. The process involved the labelling and dating of petri dishes followed by the application of a heat indicator strip to prove the petri dish had passed though an autoclave for sterilization.
Having had the process explained to him, sales manager Mark Hurst used his knowledge to source the appropriate thermochromatic ink to integrate into his solution: Using a robust hand labelling gun, Mark’s proposal was for the date and batch number to be printed using the hand labelling gun, on a pre-printed label incorporating the thermochromatic ink.
Commenting on the solution, Mark stated
Selecting the correct thermochromatic ink was imperative, as the the ink must only change colour when the temperature at which sterilization is achieved has been assured.
James McDonald the laboratory manager was extremely pleased with the results:
Mark’s involvement was fantastic. He quickly grasped the problem and gave us a solution that saves us time and money and at a very competitive price. We are happy to work with positive ID and their no-nonsense approach was very refreshing.
For more information or to see if we can help with thermochromatic ink labels, call Positive ID on 01332 864895
A local mail and sorting business contacted us to try and solve their problems and a simple but robust label gun came to the rescue.
The company collect then prepare mail to be sent on to Royal mail who then deliver the mail on contract. The customer had a handling and identification problem, some of the mail they handle had to be separated into 3 zones for processing and identification and they needed a simple, effective yet reliable method to ensure that errors were kept to a minimum, efficiency was maximised and reliability improved.
The Positive ID team solved this problem with a simple system utilising hand held labelling guns as to apply 3 variants of 26mm x 12mm labels. The labels were pre-printed with A or B or C respectively to identify the zoning requirement. That solved not only handling and processing but track back as well.
Commenting on the sale Colin Wilkie said “We pride ourselves on delivering solutions for our customers – sometimes these are very simple, requiring just a practical approach to the problem. This was a case in point and the customer is very happy with the cost-effective solution we provided.”
Positive ID’s label printers have applications in a great many industries. The flexibility of the system means that there are roles in warehousing, manufacturing, medical supply, quality control, traceability processes and many more.
Call Positive ID Labelling on 01332 864895 to see if we can help or use the contact form below to get in touch.
A potential customer approached us with an enquiry for a specialist label known as a piggyback label overprinted with a supplier name, web address as well as being consecutively numbered.
The client was in a bit of a panic because they were on a tight deadline. Thankfully, the team at Positive ID have labelling experience stretching to over 100 years coupled to the flexibility you might expect from a vibrant growing business. We were able to quickly respond getting the piggyback labels produced to the correct specification and printed before their deadline.
Piggyback labels have a double layer of labels and adhesive. You can place the label on your product and then the ‘end user’ can peel off the top layer and adhere the second label to a reply card or warranty registration card, goods return note etc. There are many more other uses for these innovative labels.
In this case they were used for product serial number ID’s using the initial label on outer box before opening and then applied directly to content after removing from box.
Commenting on the sale Mike Roberts said “Customers regularly want their orders completed in double quick time and we know we must work hard to satisfy their needs. We were very happy to have fulfilled this order which is a testament to the production staff at the company.”
To find our more about Positive ID’s capabilities just give us a call on 01332 864895 or fill in the contact form below.
The customer told us that Sato were proving both expensive and unhelpful as they needed a quick turn around on their order. Taking this into account, we reworked our production schedule and completed the order on the same day. The orders have not stopped coming; First plain thermal labels, then another label printer printer then pre-printed labels with a cream finish, then more white labels then 100 thermal printer ribbons then more white labels then an appointment in January 2012 to discuss 2 million printed cake labels
The business just keeps on coming!
At positive ID our ethos is “yes we can and yes we do” as we did for this customer!
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Positive ID Labelling offers cost effective, design conscious solution
If you’re fed up of doing battle with boring, expensive and complicated labelling solutions, PID Labelling has the answer. PID is offering its most individual and user friendly labelling solution yet, offering a complete system including netbook for just £799 plus VAT. For the first time, a company can be in complete control of its branded labels with this ingenious
system that offers ease of use and low costs.
The design’s the limit with a PID Labelling solution and any idea you have can be turned into an attractive and eye-catching label with ease. Once the design has been agreed and set, there’s no additional cost for supplying your new personalised labels. Printing at a speedy two labels per second, the system uses a thermal printer to keep costs to a low £16 per 1000
labels. Your profit margins are increased just as your sales go up thanks to your new eye-catching labelling! The system is currently even better value as you can get the software and the labelling machine absolutely free if you commit to purchasing 100,000 bespoke labels, over one or two deliveries.
Managing Director of PiD Labelling, John Mayers says:
“We are confident that our customers will appreciate just how easy our new system is. Combining innovative design, low costs and quick printing times, we’re offering the best label printing solution on the market. Our current promotion means that this is an even more affordable option available to all businesses.”
PID Labelling offers a range of sandwich labelling solutions to suit different customer budgets. It also provides a full after care service, offering remote desktop support for any problems you might encounter. PID Labelling offers a hardware and software installation service for a small additional cost if required.
Case Study: The Marriot Hotel Grosvenor House London.
Case Study: The Cake Manufacturer, North East England
